Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Apprentice Contestant Alla Wartenberg

Who is the real Alla Wartenberg, one of the stars of the upcoming season of NBC's Apprentice? A video of her Apprentice audition can be seen here. According to her official website, the 31 year old immigrant from the Soviet Union is a self made multi-millionaire, owns a chain of upscale day spas, and is a real-estate tycoon. However, The Smoking Gun has learned that Ms. Wartenberg was once a Las Vegas stripper who went by the name of 'Ecstasy' at an upscale gentleman's club.

The mother of four was also doing $40 lap dances at precisely the time her biography claims she was starting her day spa business. Can you say happy ending?

Additionally, Alla Moldova, as she was then known, was the kind of dancer who you could pay to spend the entire evening with you--you know, an 'escort'. Eventually, one of her clients--or 'Johns'--became so infatuated with Alla Wartenberg-Moldova-Ectasy that it led to the murder of two Oregon women and a California man. The two women were lesbian lovers.

Moldova's usual MO was to tell her 'dates' that she wanted to marry them. Her 'regular' took her literally and in two robberies gone bad trying to get more money to spend on 'dates', Robert Acremant ended up killing three people. Acrement is now on death row in Oregon.

Wartenberg-Moldova admitted in court documents, though, that she was just using Acrement for the money but that there were never any 'intimacies' between them. Right. We believe you Alla, honey!

Seems to me that she'll fit right in at Donald Trump's house. Alla Wartenberg gallery below.

UPDATE 9/14: (UPI) Trump and "Apprentice" producer Mark Burnett told the New York Post they were aware of her past as a stripper, but did not know about link to Acremant.